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Patented May 12, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT oFF-ICE LIILAND A. PHILLIPS,

a cAImON cOurANY,

or nOcHEsTnR, NEW Yoan, AssIeNo'n, To THE rmrrrs RIBBON or ROCHESTER,NEW YORK, A CORPORATION or Naw Tom:

' TABLET Application filed February 14, 1929. Serial NIL-839,865.

This invention relates to a tablet for car- -bon and record paper.

In the making of manifold or record copi'es on a typewriter or othermanifold machin'e, it is customary to placea sheet of coated transferpaper, such as carbon paper, in engagement with each sheet of paper onwhich the facsimile record is to bemade. It is therefore necessary forthe co yist to line up the sheet or sheets of trans er or .carbon paperwith the sheet or` sheets of record paper by striking their surface.This operation, in addition to taking much of the copyists time, quicklycauses the deterioration of the carbon paper due to the formation ofwrinkles, and for the further reason that the coating is rubbed oif bythis rough treatment. A f

In accordance with the present invention 2o it is proposedto provide atablet including a single sheet of carbon or transfer paper fastened byone edge to a plurality of sheets of paper on which records or manifoldsare to be made. Preferably .the number of sheets is such that they willjust exhaust the coating on the sheet Of carbon or transfer paper.

Another feature of the invention consists in perforating the sheets ofcopy paper so that each sheet may be separately and quickly detachedfrom the tablet after a copy has been made, without removing the carbonpager. I

ther obyects of the inventlon w1ll appear p from the detaileddescription and appended' claims.

For a more complete understanding of the invention, reference is made tothe drawings in which Fig. 1 is a top view, having a pol'- tion of thetablet torn away and also havingone corner of the carbony or transfersheet turned back; Fig. 2 is a side view of the tablet, showing indotted lines how a letterhead may' be inserted therein; Fig. 3 is a topview of-the tablet with the letterhead shown inserted in position; whileFig. 4 is a diagrammatic view of a portion vof a typewriter and aportion of the tablet of this invention partly inserted between theplaten and backmgzroller of the typewriter. eferring to the drawings,

the numeral edges. on a smooth 5 designates a' backing sheet which ma beofjiexible cardboard .onpaper and w ich ma or may not extend the wholelength of the tablet. On the top of this backing sheet there are placeda'plurality of copy sheets 6 such as ordinary correspondence paper, on

v the top of which there is laced a single sheet of carbon or othertrans er paper 7 with its c oated side down. The 'record sheets 6 may beinalinement but I prefer to arrange their ends in fanned relation asshown in Fig. 2, .thus producing a wedge shape atthe bound edge of thesheets that will be more easily gripped by the platen and feed rolls ofthe tyepwriter, and at the same time producing an arrangement of thesheets of the opposite end which enables the user to more easily pick upthe top sheet. It vshould be pointed out that the top and bottom edges(as shown in Figs. 1,2 and 3) of the backing sheet 5 and thecorrespondence sheets 6 are in reg istry, while the uncoated margin 8 ofthe carbon sheet 7 projects beyond'the edge of the sheets 6 and thebacking sheet 5. lVith the sheets in this position they are bound inplace by a binding strip 9 sewed by a straight -seam of stitching 10passing through the binding strip, the copy paper sheets 6 and thebacking sheet 5. It will be seen that each o f the copy sheets 6 isperforated along a straight line 11 parallel with the seam 10 and itwill also be noted that the binding .strip 9 and the backing sheet 5extend beyond the sheets of copy paper to facilitate the -in sertion ofthe tablet into a copying machine.

as best shown in Figs. 2 and 4.

In using this tablet the copyist inserts a letterhead such as 12 thereinwith its upper edge under the binding strip 9 against the seam ofstitching 10. The tablet may then be placed in the copying machine, suchas a typewriter, with the binder strip 9 engag ing the backing strip 5,thus forming a thin edge or wedge which permits the ready insertion ofthe tablet between the platen 14 and the roller 15. After the copy hasbeen made and the tablet removed from the machine, the copyist withdrawsthe letterhead 12 from the tablet then turns back the carbon or transfersheet zl by grasping the uncoated edge 8 and ing sheet,

tears from the tablet th'e topmost sheet 6 with the record thereon. Thecarbon sheet is then permitted to return to its flat position inengagement with the next topmost sheet 6 where it isin readiness forfuture use.

It will be recognized that t-he tablet and backing sheet form aprotective support for the sheet of carbon paper and a protectivecovering for the coating of the paper; in this way its usefulness ismaterially prolonged. Furthermore, the time of the copyist is saved asit is unnecessary for her to aline the carbon sheets and the copy sheetsin making a facsimile copy, so that there is a material saving of timeand supplies.

What I claim is:

1. A tablet comprising a backing sheet, a

plurality of record sheets and a carbon sheet arranged in the ordernamed upon said backing sheet, said record sheets being longitudinallyfanned at one end, a bindingcovering one of the ends of all the sheets,and fastening means securing the binding and said sheets together.

2. A tablet comprising a backing sheet, a plurality of record sheets anda carbon sheet arranged in the order named upon said backing sheet, saidrecord sheets being longitudinally fanned at one end, a binding stripcovering one of the ends of all of said sheets, said binding stripserving to aline and hold an unbound sheet of paper in superimposedrelation to said sheets, and fastening means securing the binding stripand all of said sheets together.

3. A tablet comprising a backing sheet, a plurality of record sheets,and a carbon sheet arranged in the order named upon said backing sheet,said record sheets being longitudinally fanned at one end, a bindingstrip covering the fanned ends of all of the sheets, and means forfastening all of said sheets together with the backing sheet extendingbeyond the bound edges of said sheets to facilitate their insertion in acopying machine.

4. A tablet comprising a backing sheet, a plurality of record sheets anda carbon sheet arranged in the order named upon said backsaid recordsheets being longitudinally fanned at one end, a binding coverin thefanned ends of all of the sheets, an means for fastening said strip andsaid sheets together with the binding strip and said backing sheetcovering and projecting beyond the fanned ends of said record sheets.

5. A tablet comprising a backing sheet, a plurality of thin recordsheets and a carbon sheet arranged in the order named upon said backingsheet, said record sheets being longitudinally fanned, a portion of saidtransfer sheet having an uncoated part extending beyond one edge of saidrecord sheets, fastening means including a binding strip for securingsaid strip and said sheets together with the binding strip and backingsheet covering and projecting beyond the fanned ends of the recordsheets to facilitate their insertion in a copying machine, saidfastening means and bindin strip serving to aline an unbound sheet 0%paper on top of said sheets.

6. A tablet comprising a backing sheet, a plurality of thin recordsheets and a carbon sheet arranged in the order named upon said backingsheet, said record sheets beinglongitudinally fanned, a binding stripcovering and projecting beyond the fanned ends of all of the recordsheets, and a row of stitching securing the binding strip and all of thesheets together.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name this 8th day ofFebruary A. D. 1929.

LELAND A. PHILLIPS.

